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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2017-07-16 16:22:33 -0700
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2017-07-16 16:29:12 -0700
commit59f6972134f312863dc761bf66a954a8036d0d86 (patch)
treecd479a7fe59b72985f98e57c4b4d861c01cf5bc8 /lib/explicit_bzero.c
parent252444aaa3a7cb9fc70289a5a3920f8a9d848109 (diff)
downloademacs-59f6972134f312863dc761bf66a954a8036d0d86.tar.gz
Use explicit_bzero to clear GnuTLS keys
* admin/merge-gnulib (GNULIB_MODULES): Add explicit_bzero. * lib/explicit_bzero.c, m4/explicit_bzero.m4: New files. * lib/gnulib.mk.in, m4/gnulib-comp.m4: Regenerate. * src/gnutls.c (clear_storage): New function. (gnutls_symmetric_aead): Use it instead of memset.
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+/* Erasure of sensitive data, generic implementation.
+ Copyright (C) 2016-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ This file is part of the GNU C Library.
+
+ The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
+ License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+ The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
+ License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
+ <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+/* An assembler implementation of explicit_bzero can be created as an
+ assembler alias of an optimized bzero implementation.
+ Architecture-specific implementations also need to define
+ __explicit_bzero_chk. */
+
+#if !_LIBC
+# include <config.h>
+#endif
+
+#include <string.h>
+
+/* glibc-internal users use __explicit_bzero_chk, and explicit_bzero
+ redirects to that. */
+#undef explicit_bzero
+
+/* Set LEN bytes of S to 0. The compiler will not delete a call to
+ this function, even if S is dead after the call. */
+void
+explicit_bzero (void *s, size_t len)
+{
+#ifdef HAVE_EXPLICIT_MEMSET
+ explicit_memset (s, 0, len);
+#else
+ memset (s, '\0', len);
+# ifdef __GNUC__
+ /* Compiler barrier. */
+ asm volatile ("" ::: "memory");
+# endif
+#endif
+}